Binding Glue
“I’m in Denver, on my way to mom,” Ron’s voice updated over the phone last Sunday.
It was a call I’d been anxious to receive. It was not a happy anxiousness. It was more of an underlying anticipation of loss. Ron’s call was confirmation that the loss was imminent. We were losing the binding glue holding our shared book of life together. I’ve heard the term “book of life” for the entire time I’ve been on earth. But until now, I’ve never considered the binding of life’s book.
We live in a time where many of us read our books through a mechanical device. I happen to be one of those, as almost all of my reading is done viewing my Kindle. Yet, I happen to be old enough to also have lots of books carefully resting on the shelves of my home-library. Those physical books have a binding holding their pages in place through expertly applied glue or stitching. Without that binding the pages would no longer be cohesive. Binding glue interconnects all of the pages in the book.
Bebe Green, Ron’s mother, has been the binding glue of our shared book of life. She has been the glue interconnecting us, several generations now. She has been our common dominator, our constant connector. Ron’s call would have normally come from Bebe. It’s not that I don’t talk with Ron regularly. I do. Yet, this particular call caused me to immediately miss a cherished voice. It was my first glimpse of noticeable receding binding glue.
To catch a glimpse of something is different than feeling and accounting for its full impact! Receding glue is the same. At first you can see that a binding’s glue has become a little discolored. Then you notice it has become a little brittle. That’s when you know you have to handle the effected book more carefully, gently. When the binding glue of your book of life begins to recede, the same pattern happens in sequence, causing the individual pages to become less tightly bound than they once were.
Today, all of our book-of-life-pages are still in place. They’re tightly bound, even though they’re spread. We’re scattered across America and beyond while the binding glue’s strength is gathering us from where the wind has blown us. And, by the end of the coming week those pages will be tightly bound for the last time.
We’ll be gathered together to honor our binding glue. We’ll be arm in arm. We’ll be watering each other’s shoulders with shared tears. We’ll be bidding our mother, grandmother, godmother, cherished friend and binding glue a fond farewell.
But, we are not bidding farewell to the great book of life! More books are being written and Bebe Green has shown us what it means and how to be binding glue. And, that is her greatest tribute and exactly what she had worked a lifetime to accomplish!
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